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Check out our full list of events for current high school students who are thinking about applying to UBC Engineering in the future.

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If you have already submitted your application to the Bachelor of Applied Science (Engineering), check out our exclusive events just for you.

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UBC Engineering Open House

Online:  Thursday, October 12 to Saturday, October 14, 2023 

While this year's Open House has passed, you can still watch all of the presentation recordings. We plan to host the 2024 Open House in October and will update the website in early summer once dates are confirmed. 

Watch the 2023 recorded presentations

Vancouver On-campus: Saturday, November 4, 2023

Okanagan On-campus: Saturday, November 18, 2023

The next on-campus Open House will be held in early November 2024. Dates will be confirmed online in early summer. 

More info about the On-campus Open House 

UBC Engineering Prospective Student Online Presentations

February 2, 2024: UBC Engineering: Design, Create, Innovate

Interested in a future career where you'll get to design, create, and innovate? Want a career that can make an impacting change in our world? With over 14 engineering programs ranging from biomedical to environmental to manufacturing, all with a focus on sustainability and making a positive impact on our world, we invite you to learn about how a degree with UBC Engineering can lead to unlimited career opportunities.

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June 5, 2024: UBC Engineering: Everything You Need to Know

Engineers solve problems and make the world a better place to live. Discover some of the ways engineering impacts your life every day and everything you need to know in order to become an engineer, beginning with admissions details to UBC Engineering at UBC's Vancouver or Okanagan campus.

You can also watch all of our past presentations on YouTube: 

Check out our Prospective Student Presentation Playlist

Changing the World: Engineering the Future

Date:  March 13, 2024 Location:  Online

High school girls* and gender non-conforming folks in grades 10-12 are invited to explore why engineering is an amazing career for those who want to change the world, help improve the lives of others and the environment around us, and who like teamwork and problem-solving.

*Please be aware that we have an inclusive view of the word "girl" and we welcome trans*, genderqueer and non-binary folks interested in this event.

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Technovation GirlsBC Program

What is social innovation? Can we look to technology to help address social issues? How do you merge social innovation with digital solutions? This is what Technovation Girls is about! Join us for the 2024 Technovation Girls season: A global tech conference for young girls* where there is opportunity to tackle a local community concern while one learns how to code an app.

Program runs January through April 2024

Register here

Engineering Tours

Check out our YouTube playlist of UBC Engineering Tours to tour our campus, labs, and residences. 

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Campus Tours

UBC offers campus tours for prospective students who want to explore the larger UBC experience - the campus, residences, libraries, recreational and social facilities and student services. 

Visit the UBC Vancouver Campus Tour website for more information  

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The University of British Columbia’s Vancouver campus is located at the western tip of the Point Grey Peninsula in the city of Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada.

More than 400 hectares in size, the stunning campus is surrounded by forest on three sides and ocean on the fourth, and is just a 30 minute bus ride to Vancouver's downtown core. The campus has been located on this site for most of its 100-year; a location that is the traditional territory of the  Musqueam people .

The campus also has two additional sites, one in the heart of downtown Vancouver at Robson Square , and another at Centre for Digital Media .

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• TRIUMF  — one of the world’s leading laboratories for subatomic physics
• UBC Library  — one of Canada’s leading academic libraries, with 21 branches and divisions on this campus
• The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts  — one of the world’s great concert halls
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• The Beaty Biodiversity Museum  — home to Canada’s largest blue whale skeleton
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View the campus from anywhere in the world. Current students will walk you through key locations, giving you a feel for what it’s like to live and learn at UBC. See residences, study spots, recreational facilities, lecture halls, academic buildings, and more.

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The Okanagan campus is an intimate learning community embracing bold new ways of thinking that attract exceptional students and faculty. More than 8,300 students from throughout the Okanagan region, across Canada and 80 other countries are enrolled in undergraduate and graduate programs in eight faculties and schools.

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Campus Tours

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• Start: 13 January 2022 12:00 pm
• End: 13 January 2022 1:00 pm
• Venue: GSC Courtyard (Thea Koerner House)
• Categories: Graduate Student Society

Learn your way around campus and the spots you need to know as a Grad Student at UBC Vancouver! Our walking tour guides are current UBC Grad Students with the inside knowledge, so ask away!

Tours are free and are reserved for  INCOMING GRADUATE STUDENTS ONLY.

All tours will meet up and leave from the  Thea Koerner House courtyard  by the Fountain. Please arrive 5-10 minutes early. Tours will take approximately 60 mins to show you the highlights and inside tips and tricks on the best places of campus.

Tour guides are Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies Ambassadors.

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Everything you need to know about UBC’s Campus-wide Login

By Crissy Campbell on April 22, 2024

Every UBC student needs to create a Campus-wide Login (CWL) once they’ve accepted their offer of admission. UBC’s CWL gives you access to UBC’s websites for the duration of your studies (including Workday Student, UBC Library , Canvas , and others), enabling you to use the same username and password across all websites.

When do you need to create your UBC CWL?

The first time you’ll need a CWL will be to log into Workday Student, UBC’s student information system, to register for your courses. Before then, you can use your EducationPlanner BC (EPBC) username and password to log into:

• The Education Planner BC website (EPBC) to apply to UBC.
• The Applicant Service Centre (ASC) to check your application status, see next steps required to complete your application, upload documents required by UBC, and accept or decline your offer of admission.
• The Housing website ( UBC Okanagan | UBC Vancouver ) to apply for student housing, check the status of your housing application, and make payments to your residence account.

UBC will email you when it’s time to prepare for registration – providing you with your registration date and time. When it’s your time to log into Workday Student to prepare to register for your courses, that’s when you’ll need to create your UBC CWL.

How do you create your UBC CWL?

You need an active student number to create a CWL Student Account. This is why you should not create a CWL before you have accepted your offer of admission to UBC .

Once you’ve accepted your offer of admission, find out how to create your UBC CWL Student Account by reading the “Student Accounts (CWL Account Upgrader)” section on the UBC CWL website. You’ll use your EPBC username and password to log into the CWL Account Upgrader . Then, simply follow the steps to create your CWL.

Do you need a CWL to apply to UBC, check your application status, or apply for housing?

No, new undergraduate students do not need a CWL for these websites. Simply use the EPBC username and password that you created to apply to UBC via the EducationPlanner BC website .

If you created a CWL before accepting your offer of admission to UBC your CWL might not work. Why?

If you created a CWL before accepting your offer of admission, your new UBC CWL will not be properly connected to your application to UBC. You’ll likely find that you aren’t able to log into the Applicant Service Centre with this unconnected UBC CWL.

If this happens to you, you can use your EducationPlanner BC username and password to log into the Applicant Service Centre .

But you’ll need to contact UBC so we can connect your UBC CWL with your application. This process can take a week or two.

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Russia arrests another suspect in the concert hall attack that killed 144.

`MOSCOW (AP) — A Moscow court has detained another suspect as an accomplice in the attack by gunmen on a suburban Moscow concert hall that killed 144 people in March, the Moscow City Courts Telegram channel said Saturday.

Dzhumokhon Kurbonov, a citizen of Tajikistan, is accused of providing the attackers with means of communication and financing. The judge at Moscow’s Basmanny District Court ruled that Kurbonov would be kept in custody until May 22 pending investigation and trial.

Russian state news agency RIA Novosti said Kurbonov was reportedly detained on April 11 for 15 days on the administrative charge of petty hooliganism. Independent Russian media outlet Mediazona noted that this is a common practice used by Russian security forces to hold a person in custody while a criminal case is prepared against them.

Twelve defendants have been arrested in the case, including four who allegedly carried out the attack at the Crocus City Hall concert venue, according to RIA Novosti.

Those four appeared in the same Moscow court at the end of March on terrorism charges and showed signs of severe beatings. One appeared to be barely conscious during the hearing. The court ordered that the men, all of whom were identified in the media as citizens of Tajikistan, also be held in custody until May 22.

A faction of the Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the massacre in which gunmen shot people who were waiting for a show by a popular rock band and then set the building on fire. But Russian officials including President Vladimir Putin have persistently claimed, without presenting evidence, that Ukraine and the West had a role in the attack.

Ukraine denies involvement and its officials claim that Moscow is pushing the allegation as a pretext to intensify its fighting in Ukraine .

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